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The Bergen County Baseball Tournament field will be selected and seeded on Thursday, so we go over some of the particulars on the latest episode of Talkin' Baseball powered by northjerseysports.com.

It's all about the bread, extra inning games played to conclusions and cut short, some good math, some bad math and a few bleeps. We have North Jersey high school baseball covered on the latest episode of Talkin' Baseball.

You can put away the "waiting" memes now as Talkin' Baseball is officially back on northjerseysports.com. We talk about the thriller in Emerson on Saturday that celebrated the life and legacy of Steve Ramagli and catch up on what has been a great first week of the 2026 high school baseball season. We have Joe Sutera back in the co-host's chair and some new technology that worked as designed for almost all of the show.

We wrap up the 2025-26 boys basketball season with a mythical T of C champion, touch on the All-Bergen County Selections and recap Felician University's historic season before diving into Spring sports. It's the season finale of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Northern Valley/Old Tappan was the No. 6 seed heading into the 16-team North 1, Group 3 state sectional tournament. The Golden Knights are now just one of 12 girls basketball teams in New Jersey with a game left on the schedule. NVOT beat North 2 champion Chatham in Elizabeth on Wednesday night to earn a spot in Sunday's Group 3 state final against Moorestown.We caught up with the Knights on the Victory Bus amid the postgame ride home, which included pizza and donuts. We talk to head coach Brian Dunn and seniors Sadie Murphy, Sienna Drullinsky and Nina Cauneda on a special edition of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Plainfield knocked off East Orange Campus to reach the Group 4 state final on Tuesday night and not long after that Cardinals' head coach Michael Gordon joined us to talk all about it on the latest episode of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com

There is something cool happening in Rutherford where Felician University (27-3) is making its mark on Division 2 basketball. The Falcons won the outright CACC regular season title for the first time in program history, set the program record for wins in a season and tied the record for the most ever by a CACC team. They have also won the Conference Tournament and are heading to the NCAA tourney for the first time since 2022. Felician will play Adelphi in the first round in Buffalo on Saturday.Felician's assistant coach is Brad Forestieri, who is also our co-host, so he is on the guest list and so are junior's Tristan Harcourt, a Newark native and the CACC Defensive Player of the Year, and Tayvian Pullock, a Paterson resident and third-team All-Conference selection.It's something different for us on The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Ramsey is set to host Friday night's North 1, Group 2 final but before that the Rams' head coach Mark Christiansen joins us to talk about it. We also reset the rest of the state tournament with CACC champ Brad Forestieri in the co-host's chair. It's The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

The state tournament moves fast, especially when its schedule gets shuffled by the weather. We try to keep up with a wrap-up of the first round while Brad Forestieri is on the Felician bus to Chestnut Hill College for the CACC finale. It's The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Delayed by weather, the state tournament is about to get underway in earnest on Thursday afternoon. We make our high-stakes championship predictions as Brad Forestieri, our co-host, does his first show as a newlywed. We also talk Felician University head coach Ivan Lewis, whose program is in the midst of a historic year in the CACC and beyond. For once, it is not snowing on The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

More snow, more hoops talk as we continue our state tournament preview. Ramapo's Nick Vier, Westwood's Rob Carcich and Lyndhurst's Perrin Mosca are all on the guest list between shifts of shoveling. Brad Forestieri is back in the co-host's chair as we go long on this episode of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Originally scheduled to be a part of the main show, we quickly realized that this interview with Emerson head coach John Ziemba had to stand on its own. We preview the state tournament and really go deep on Bergen County hoops with one of the best coaches to ever do it. It's a 2-for-1 this week on The Ballgame! with CACC winning assistant coach Brad Forestieri.

We have a lot of ground to cover this week as we open our state tournament preview by talking to Hackensack head coach Aaron Taylor, whose team is the No. 2 seed in North 1, Group 4. We also wrap up the Jambo semifinals, touch on an all-public school final on the girls side and shoutout Chris Kasparian, who became Palisades Park's all-time leading boy basketball scorer. Oh, and that is just part one of this week's edition of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com

Either second-seeded Tenafly or No. 3 St. Mary is going to reach the Bergen County Jamboree final for the first time in program history. They will meet each other this weekend in the semifinals at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Sounds like the perfect time to talk to the head coaches, Tenafly's Jeff Koehler and St. Mary's Brian Gaccione. Our co-host, Brad Forestieri, also catches us up on what is turning into a historic season at Felician University on The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

With the Jambo quarterfinals on tap this weekend we talk to two head coaches that will be involved. Don Bosco Prep head coach Kevin Diverio, whose team is the No. 7 seed, and Dan Egorow, in charge of 12th-seeded Cresskill, are the guests. Brad Forestieri shows his commitment to the program by doing half the show from the sidelines of his work convention at The Tropicana in AC. It's another jam-packed episode of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com and sponsored by verticalraise.com

This edition of the Bergen County Jamboree has lived up to expectations. Teaneck's Mickell Taylor dropped 47 in an overtime win over River Dell, undefeated Tenafly edged past upstart Lyndhurst, No. 12-seeded and Group 1 Cresskill is still kicking and the quarterfinals are set. We talk all about it all that + pass along salutations to and from the Jambo committee's new media liaison.

With no disc golf to be played and no long walks to be taken because of the great blizzard of 2026, what else was there to do besides break down the Bergen County Jamboree bracket from top to bottom? Head coaches Jeff Koehler of Tenafly, Chris Gaskin of Ridgefield Park, Pat Gabriele of NV/Demarest and Waldwick's Greg McBain are all on the guest list. We also make predictions and have some laughs on The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Is Bosco in? If so, where should the Ironmen be seeded? How many NJIC teams make the cut and where do you put them? Is it the year of the publics? There is a lot to consider as the Bergen County Jamboree field is about to be selected, so we form a committee of our own and give our list of who should be in, where they should be slotted and whose bubble has burst. It's Brad from the victory bus and Vertical Raise as the sponsor on The Ballgame!

We are late to the basketball party, but we finally booted up the recording devices to re-launch The Ballgame! Brad Forestieri is back in the co-host's chair as we catch up on the local hoops scene and then talk to first year Garfield head coach Deon Mingo. We are off and running with the first episode of 2026!

All but one of the state finals were played this past weekend and Brian Carr, to no one's surprise, was at all of them. We wrap up the games and the 2025 high school football season on the latest episode of The Football Show!

The season did not end the way he would have liked, but it was still another banner year for Northern Valley/Old Tappan and head coach Brian Dunn. We look back at the 2025 season that ended in the state final for the third time in four years and about all things high school football in New Jersey. We cover a lot of ground with one of the state's top coaches in less than an hour on The Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com.

For the fourth straight week Old Tappan won a state playoff game with a running clock in the second half. We hear all about it from seniors Ekin Yucel and Devin Radoian and from head coach Brian Dunn. We break down the rest of the state semifinals and preview the penultimate weekend of the high school football season on the Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com.

We have interviews from Old Tappan's win in the North 1, Group 3 final and Westwood's in North 1, Group 2. We go deep on Ramapo's win over Highlands in a championship classic, see how our predictions played out, make more and look ahead to this weekend's state semifinals. It's a jam-packed episode of The Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com.

The matchups are all set for this weekend's state sectional finals and we are all over it. Brian Carr talks to Ramsey Favata and Davis about the Rams' spot in the North 1, Group 2 final and we go through all of the brackets on the latest episode of The Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com

There was a lot of chalk in the opening round of the state playoffs with the exception of North 2, Group 2 where Becton was an upset winner. We have sound from Rutherford after the Bulldog's tight win over previously unbeaten Hoboken and we break down the rest on the latest episode of The Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com

We have an interview with Hoboken head coach Joe Borkowski⁠, whose team just wrapped up an undefeated regular season heading into a first round playoff matchup up at Rutherford. We also wrap up the NJIC final won by Butler for the second straight year and then its all about state playoff previews and predictions on The Football Show!, presented by northjerseysports.com

We talk NJIC semifinals, the Super Football Conference and even some Rutgers & Giants on what was a wild week of football in the state of New Jersey. Jimmy Avitabile and Brian Carr steer the ship.

Rutherford has won the NJIC championship four times and it begins its Drive for 5 on Friday night in the semifinals against Wood-Ridge. Bulldogs head coach Steve Dunn joins us to talk about it and we go over the rest of the week that was on the latest episode of The Football Show!

It was a wild week in the NJIC with three games decided by a single point, two others by on score and with Pal Park/Leonia picking up its first win of the season. We have sound from Bogota's crazy 61-60 triple overtime win over Weehawken and, in the Super Football Conference, we have an interview with Westwood's Stevie Klein after the Cardinals improved to 5-1 with a win over Weequahic. We talk Old Tappan, East Stroudsburg University Homecoming Weekend and a whole lot more on The Football Show!

It was a madhouse in Ramsey on Friday night when Don Bosco Prep beat Bergen Catholic for the first time since 2022 and our own illustrious panel of North Jersey football insiders were there to take it all in. We talk about the NJIC playoff race that is shaping up and a whole lot more on the latest episode of The Football Show! presented by northjerseysports.com.

Wood-Ridge is off to a 4-0 start and the Blue Devils' first-year head coach Andrew Carbone joins us to talk about it. We also have audio from Old Tappan's 28-24 win over Ramapo in an instant classic. Juniors Shane Small and Zach Micelli and Golden Knights head coach Brian Dunn all chime in.It's a jam-packed episode of The Football Show! presented by northjerseysports.com.

Dumont is off to a 3-0 start which makes for an interesting week here at the World Headquarters of northjerseysports.com. Head coach Mike Farrington is the guest and Brian Carr is, well...the Head Husky! And there was plenty more to talk about the week that was in North Jersey High School Football.

The first full week of the 2025-26 high school football season is in the books and already some teams have made statements. The Big Boys are winning on a national stage, Old Tappan is 2-0 again, Highlands is off and running and Westwood shocked Pascack Valley.There is plenty to talk about on the latest episode of The Football Show! presented by northjerseysports.com.

It's never too early to start a high school football season and it is never to early to get on a soapbox about the early start to the high school football season. We do that and preview some of the big games on tap as the season gets underway before the school year does. Jim Avitabile and Brian Carr are back as the co-hosts of northjerseysports.com's The Football Show!

Ever wish you could hear someone talk about what you were thinking about the way the NJSIAA handled the baseball state playoffs? Well, you have come to the right place. And after we get done with that business, we move on to wrapping up the rest the 2025 high baseball season on Talkin' Baseball!Don't forget to listen to our interview with Midland Park head coach Frank Clark. We pulled the interview from the end of the show and made it a standalone. The link is below...

Originally a late add to the season finale of Talkin' Baseball, our Frank Clark interview was too good to be left at the one hour mark for the diehards only. Clark will lead Midland Park into the Group 1 state final on Monday and if you are not riding hard with the Panthers after listening here you are not a fan of pure high school baseball. Enjoy!

It's high time for high school baseball junkies as the Bergen County Tournament wrapped up over the weekend and the state tournament kicked off on Tuesday. We have a lot to talk about and add in an appearance by William Paterson University head coach Mike Lauterhahn, who lends his interesting perspective to the high school and local college scene. And then...Nolan Ryan or Greg Maddux? We are Talkin' Baseball!

The Bergen County Baseball Tournament is down to its Final 4 and it has been a lot of fun getting to this point. Upsets, intrigue, close games...it all leads to what should be two marquee matchups at Demarest this Saturday. We talk about it with Ramapo head coach Garrison Ward.We also talk some BIT, throw in a couple of bleeps and then get down to the business of "Who Played it Best?" catcher edition on this episode of Talkin' Baseball!

The first round of the Bergen County Tournament went off without a hitch and Paramus Catholic was amongst the winners for the first time since 2016. We talk to head coach Mario Lugones about the Paladins' rise. The second round is the issue. With the weather wreaking havoc it is a good thing that we have the Tournament Director in the co-host's chair on a brand new episode of northjerseysports.com's Talkin' Baseball.

It's almost time to seed the Bergen County Tournament and we talk about that (a little). There is a 'Who Played It Better' third base edition, a couple of bleeps and the best names of a generation. We go off the rails a bit on a brand new episode of northjerseysports.com's Talkin' Baseball!

Reigning sectional champion Pascack Valley and its loaded roster is off to an 8-3 start against a grueling schedule that included a win at Old Tappan on Monday. We talk to head coach Will Lynch about the Panthers' promising season. We also choose Right Field for our 'Who Played It Best' feature and our co-host's answer might surprise you. We are Talkin' Baseball!

Before we talk to Passaic Valley head coach Jay Tiseo about his team's 6-0 start, we hit on the important stuff like the weather and the credentials of Jeff Kent vs. Joe Morgan. Oh...and stick around for Joey "Sunshine" Sutera's late show rant. Quiet in the dugouts, please...we are Talkin' Baseball!

The weather has made it tough to get out and cover games, so we have retreated to the World Headquarters of northjerseysports.com to talk about the first week-plus of the high school baseball season. Joey "Mike Brady" Sutera is back in the co-hosts chair as we debate who was better...Tony Gwynn or Albert Belle.

It ain't Spring until we are Talkin' Baseball, so we do just that with Mike Carcich, the Wood -Ridge head coach who recently spoke at the Bergen County Coaches Symposium. We talk program building at a Group 1 school, which he has done over his 15 years with the Blue Devils. Joey 'Parent' Sutera is back in the co-hosts chair as we dive into the new season.

The 2024-25 high school hoops season is officially in the books. Bergen County had one champion, one finalist and a whole bunch of story lines. We look back at all of the state finals with Felician University assistant coach Brad Forestieri on the season finale of The Ballgame!

The kings of the sectional tournament have been crowned and we talk about all of them. Ramapo/Demarest...checkRidgewood/East Orange...checkGlen Rock/Vernon...checkPaterson Charter/Cresskill...checkNon-Publics...checkState Semifinal Previews...checkLots of Laughs...also checkFelician University assistant coach Brad Forestieri returns to the co-host chair fresh off his rejection from the North 1, Group 4 final. It's high time for hoops junkies and we ride the wave on the latest episode of The Ballgame!.

The boys basketball tournament moves at breakneck pace and we attempt to keep up. Felician University assistant coach Brad Forestieri is back in the co-host chair as we recap the section semifinals and look forward to the championship games on The Ballgame!, northjerseysports.com's original multimedia series.

The boys basketball state tournament waits for no one so we keep pace. Felician University assistant coach Brad Forestieri returns as we recap Round 1 and preview the quarterfinals on a brand new episode of The Ballgame!

Brad Forestieri is a northjerseysports.com OG, a player on Elmwood Park's 2003 state sectional championship team that almost upset Bloomfield Tech in the Group 1 semifinals. He is now an assistant coach at Felician University and he is the co-host as we preview this year's state tournament, which gets underway in a few hours.

The Gold Cup final will be played on Thursday night at the Ice Vault and Pascack will be there. The upstarts will look to pick up a major trophy against defending state champion Northern Highlands. We talk to head coach Sean Cosgrove, and brothers Joey and Owen Dargan about the matchup.We have a Northern Highlands preview, too. Listen to them both on It's Hockey Night! on northjerseysports.com.